Honestly, when she suddenly had a big son, Jiang Shuyin didn't feel like a mother at all. She was an only child and had never taken care of younger children before. She treated the children more like her younger brothers and sisters.
Jiang Shuyin felt a mix of excitement and inexplicable nervousness as she prepared to send her child to school tomorrow.
Zheng Lanxiang is the same.
The mother and daughter listed out all the things the child would need for school at home. Zheng Lanxiang's lips never left her mouth: "When you were in school, you didn't need any of these. I paid your tuition and even picked you up and dropped you off for the first week. After that, you went to school by yourself. I even sewed your schoolbag for you."
“Yes.” Jiang Shuyin smiled faintly.
Don't be fooled by how well I'm doing now; my childhood was quite tough.
Throughout elementary, middle, and high school, she was most afraid of teachers mentioning the word "pay money."
Then there are the spring and autumn outings organized by the school.
Jiang Jianli and her mother both work very hard. When she told her that she wanted to go out to play, she had to pay 15 yuan for the bus fare, so they scolded her. In the end, she paid the money, but she didn't have enough money to prepare snacks and amusement park rides. If she went to the amusement park empty-handed, her classmates would definitely laugh at her.
She remembered that she shamelessly asked for it, and Jiang Jianli gave her ten yuan, while her mother gave her five yuan.
She took fifteen yuan to the supermarket to buy snacks. After browsing for a long time, she only bought two bags of potato chips and biscuits for one yuan each, spending six yuan in total.
After that, she would buy potato chips every time she went out to play. Because the potato chips made her backpack bulge, the students behind her would be pleasantly surprised and say, "Jiang Shuyin, you must have brought a lot of delicious food, right? Can I trade you a cake made by my mom?"
Jiang Shuyin did not agree. She didn't even open her schoolbag. After playing in the ghost cave and on the roller coaster, she went home hungry.
Sigh, she doesn't miss the past at all.
Now that I have a child of my own, I want to make up for it through my child and heal my childhood wounds.
ICE hasn't received the book yet; his backpack currently contains a set of clothes, pencils, erasers, and other stationery, all of which he picked out himself yesterday.
No Ultraman or Armor Hero designs; ICE prefers all-black items.
The next day, after getting up early and having breakfast at home, Jiang Shuyin, worried that he would be hungry, took two bags of snacks and several first-order crystal cores of different colors from her spatial storage and put them into his schoolbag.
Around 7:40, the area in front of the elementary school was congested again.
"I shouldn't have been lazy and skipped those few steps."
It took the traffic police 55 minutes to clear the road. They hurriedly took the child to the school gate and were momentarily stunned when they saw him rushing to the classroom.
"I didn't drive when I came to pick up my child this afternoon; I rode an electric scooter instead, and the traffic jam really got to me." The mother next to me had finished her task and was chatting at the door. Their children were in the same class.
Jiang Shu glanced over there but had no intention of joining. She still needed to go to Tian He's house; she had previously arranged to visit her after her postpartum period.
She stopped her car at a baby store on the road and called Tian He.
"Hey, Xiao Yin? You're back?" Tian He's tired voice came from the other end.
Jiang Shuyin: "Did I wake you up? I just got back and was about to go to your house to find you."
"Then hurry up and come here. I didn't just wake up. I didn't sleep all night. When I was pregnant, I just wanted to give birth as soon as possible to get rid of the pain. Now that I've given birth, I realize that the nightmare has only just begun. You'll know how much pain I'm in when you have a child..." Tian He rambled on. Jiang Shuyin took out her phone and walked into the maternity and baby store with a smile: "Alright, have you had breakfast? I'll bring it to you."
Tian He finally stopped his endless complaining and specifically asked for the Zha Zha Rice Noodles on Chunhua Road: "That rice noodle is unbeatable. It tastes just like the one near our junior high school. I ate it for a month straight and never got tired of it."
Jiang Shuyin took a few cans of Stage A milk powder from the shelf and went to pay: "I'm not talking to you anymore. Open the door for me in half an hour."
"Check, how much?"
Although we now use mission points, people still tend to call it money.
After a few beeps, the cashier looked at the amount on the screen and said, "489 task points. If you spend over 500, you can get diapers and baby bottles for free. Would you like to add this to your order?"
Jiang Shuyin didn't care about the 11 mission points: "Just give me something to make up the difference."
There were snacks next to the cashier, and she picked up a bottle of sweetened milk: "This is exactly 11. Babies can't drink it, but you can drink it yourself."
Jiang Shuyin nodded. The cashier saw that she had the A-grade 0-3 month infant formula, so she gave her a small size of diapers and a small bottle.
After putting the things in the car, Jiang Shuyin drove to find the Zha Zha Rice Noodles that Tian He had mentioned.
She ate at the restaurant and then packed the leftovers to go. The taste was indeed very familiar, and she wanted to come again tomorrow.
Tian He was already waiting for her at home. As soon as he opened the door, he quickly put his index finger up at her and said, "Shh—"
Her voice was so soft it sounded like she was doing something wrong: "I just put her to sleep and took her to my mother-in-law's room. Let's go upstairs and play." Seeing the things Jiang Shu was carrying, Tian He blinked: "You bought so many things, I won't stand on ceremony with you. Why don't you be her godmother?"
Jiang Shuyin quickly waved her hand: "No, I don't have the energy to take care of the child now. I only bought him things because we have a good relationship."
Tian He smiled, pulled her into the room, turned on the projector to play the latest movie, and while opening the rice noodle packaging box, he said to her, "This comedy movie was filmed a while ago and hasn't been released yet. At this point, the box office won't go up at all, so the government bought it and is showing it to everyone for free. I resisted watching it and was just waiting for you to come."
She slurped up noodles beside her, while Jiang Shuyin took a sip of water, opened a bag of potato chips, and leaned against the tatami mat.
"It was her who acted in it. People said she was funny when she was taking care of the Marquis's wife."
"She has a lot of works, but they are all roles like mothers-in-law, aunts, or sisters-in-law. This time she finally got to play the lead role, which means she has finally made it."
......
After the movie ended, it was almost 11 o'clock when Jiang Shuyin received a message from her mother: "Are you coming home for dinner?"
Jiang Shuyin tapped the keyboard and typed: Back.
Tian He also had to take care of the child, and she didn't want to talk to Tian He's mother-in-law, so she decided to leave early.
"Then I won't keep you any longer. Next time Cao Jing comes back, I'll treat you to a meal out."
According to Cao Jing, his promotion to team leader might have been due to Jiang Shu's influence, so Tian He had been wanting to formally introduce them.
After Jiang Shu led them onto the elevator, the doors had just closed when Grandma Tian He came out carrying the child, her face drooping: "Happy? Having too much fun? You're a mother now, and you still invite people over to play all the time. Luckily, your friend knows some manners and knows not to come empty-handed."
Tian He's chest heaved a few times, calming his anger: "Tell these things to your son, don't say them in front of me. If you don't like it, go to work. I don't want to be around you either."
"How dare you speak to me like that? I'm your mother-in-law, an elder. How dare you talk to me like that?" Her voice suddenly rose, sounding particularly sharp in the quiet space.
Tian He, suppressing his anger, said, "Your grandson is sleeping. Whoever woke him up should comfort him."
The child doesn't even have her surname, so they don't care about her, and neither does she. Don't try to use the child to keep her.
She doesn't regret marrying Cao Jing; she just blames herself for not even earning enough to pay for rent and having to squeeze into such a cramped house with her in-laws.
If Xiaoyin chooses to get married, never fall for the same tricks she's been through.
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